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My grandfather bought one of these ex-RAF officers bungalows after the Second World War so that the family could have a holiday base. In the B850004 photo, our bungalow is roughly alongside the white car you can see parked ...Read more

A memory of Barmston in 1953 by Peter Rodger

I used to attend the school at the very top of this road, Lovelace Infants and Juniors. A long walk as I lived close to North Parade. As you walked up this road towards the school, on the left hand side there was a large RAF base (medical I believe)

A memory of Chessington in 1955

I remember the Bakers at the corner of Longfellow Road. My parents lived in Merrilands Road and my mother and I would do our shopping in Worcester Park and sometimes at North Cheam or even Sutton or Kingston! Fond memories.

A memory of Worcester Park in 1952 by Margaret Bond

I was born in North Seaton in 1943, very fond memories of the time growing up and of the beach at the mouth of the Wansbeck. Memories also of Ashington as a teenager, I left the area in 1962 but still return regularly to visit .

A memory of North Seaton in 1954 by Bill Kinnaird

Can anyone remember the church (methodist) you could go in from North Road or from Crossgate, across from St Margaret's Church! I remember the family living in the church house - the Parks (June/Madaline)?

A memory of Durham in 1957 by Marjorie Anderson

Some of my happiest childhood memories are of the holidays the family spent at Withernsea, staying at my Grandmothers caravan. Her name was Clara Peat and my first visit would have been ...Read more

A memory of Withernsea in 1956 by David Peat

Hello, It was Frith's photos, but I'd given up! Lovely to make contact. Mum's brother was Lawrence Scurry, who married Myra's sister Louie. I was only a few months old when I first visited Kirkham in 1949 and Uncle Lawrence ...Read more

A memory of Kirkham in 1950 by Brian Buxton

On the subject of railway bogies (handcarts), for two years each Sunday morning in the late Fifties I used to propel one, laden to the gunnels with newspapers, from Monkseaton station, through Souter Park, down Hawthorn Gardens to the ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay in 1958 by Colin Henderson

I think browning road was where the north star pub was which I regularly drunk in (when I was 18)Someone was talking about families in browning rd tho holloways was one I think they had a son called Brian who I went to school with ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1953 by Colin Mudd

I was born at home in North Street, Stilton; the house is the one on the left, just after the big white one (it was 19 North Street). I lived in many houses in Stilton - 19 North St, 55 North St, 6 Glebe Rd, 14 Norman Drive and 3 ...Read more

A memory of Stilton in 1952 by Peter Noble